Adjustable arm-supporter.



No. 883,004, PATENTED MAB. 24,1908.

. c. H. DINGMAN.

ADJUSTABLE ARM SUPPORTER. APPLIOATION rmzn SEPT. s, 1901.

1% ha zone:

Q Mount 5 I CATHERINE H. DINGMAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ADJUSTABLE ARM-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

Application filed September 6, 1907. Serial No. 391,667.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CATHERINE H. DING- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Arm-Supporters and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to supporters or slings for carrying broken or wounded arms or hands, from the shoulders of the person.

It is the object of the invention to provide a construction that will conveniently and comfortably support the arm and hand and have the weight borne by the shoulders and not by the neck.

It is also the object of the invention to so form the supporter that it may be made reversible and thus changed in position so as to readily support either the left or right arm and hand.

It is, furthermore, the object of the invention to make the supporter adjustable so that it will suit a person of any size; making the adjustments of laces and eyelets so that the adjustment may be readily made without disturbing the patient, andv also to make it of fast-color light-weight and strong material so that it can easily be laundered and thus kept in a perfectly sanitary condition.

The nature of the invention is fully and clearly ascertainable from the device portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in view of which it will first be described with respect to its construction and mode of use, and then be pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Of the said drawings-Figure 1 is a front view of the supporter or sling indicating how an arm of a person may be supported therein, as also how the adjustment may be effected. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the pocket portion of the supporting strap, the latter being represented for the main portion in elevation. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the pocket part. i

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case maybe, wherever they occur.

In carrying out my invention I form the pocket A of the supporter or sling in which the arm or both arm and hand are to be carried of strong fast-color light-weight fabric, making it rounded on top 10 and leaving narrowed upstanding portions 11 and 12 at each end. The lower end of the pocket below the upstanding end. 11 will be closed and rounded, as at 13, suitablefor the elbow to rest in while the opposite end 14 will be left open so that, if desired, the hand or a portion of it may project through the same.

The edges of the pocket will be hemmed or otherwise well finished; and a relatively heavy padded shoulder-strip B will be connected. by sewing at its broader end, 15, to the upstanding end 11 and left loose at its other end 16, which will be provided about six inches above its lower end with two rows of eyelets 17, through which and through eye lets in the upper edges the upstanding ends 12 laces 18 may be passed not only to secure the parts together but to adjust them with the greatest nicety to suit the size of the person or other circumstances. The shoul der strap B is rounded so that it can be arranged over the shoulder and rest comfortably thereon and not on the neck.

It is obvious that the supporter or sling can be reversed-*that is, turned inside out or back to front and so be made to accommodate either arm.

The adjustability of the sling as has been stated is of great importance in the invention.

W'hat is claimed is- A sling for an arm and. hand composed of a pocket having a rounded upper portion, one end being closed and the other open, adapting the elbow to rest in the closed end and the hand to extend to the open end, a padded shoulder strap, made in rounded form, permanently connected at the upper edge of the closed end. and adapted to be adjustably connected with the upper edges of the open end.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

CATHERINE H. DINGMAN.

lVitnesses:

' SAMUEL H. GREENE, S UIER R. MATHEW. 

